Education
She then returned to the United States and received her Doctor of Philosophy in anthropology from Columbia University in 1957.
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Sally Moore
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She did her major fieldwork in Tanzania and has published extensively on cross-cultural, comparative legal theory. Moore was trained as a lawyer at Columbia Law school and, after working on Wall Street, became a staff attorney at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg during the investigation of Nazi war criminals. She was chair of the anthropology section of the joint Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Southern California (1963–1977, 1969–1972) and a professor at University of California at Los Angeles (1977–1981) and Yale University (1975–1976) before she joining the Harvard University faculty in 1981.
She was Dean of the Graduate School at Harvard from 1985-1989.
In 2010 she was appointed Affiliated Professor of International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. John Borneman, Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University Craig Calhoun, appointed future Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science from September 2012 on.
Achievements
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Ansley Prize, Columbia University 1957 Mogan Lectures, University of Rochester, 1981 Barnard College, Medal of Distiinction 1987 Guggenheim, 1995–1996 Huxley Memorial Medalist and Lecturer for 1999, by the Royal Anthropological Institute in London. She was only the second woman so honored. Harry J. Kalven, Junior. Prize, 2005 Elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2005.
Politics
Symbol and Politics in Communal Ideology: Cases and Questions.
Membership
Elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2005.
